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MILITARY: Marine from bloodied Camp Pendleton unit faces new fight
Lt. Cameron West says he was 'lucky 'cuz I still got one leg'
The war in Afghanistan ended in less than three weeks for Marine Lt. Cameron "Big Country" West.
The battle to rebuild his life ---- after a roadside bomb tore apart his body ---- will go on for years.
"I got lucky, to tell you the truth, 'cuz I still got one leg," the 25-year-old West said.
Many of the Marines he's surrounded by at his daily rehabilitation sessions are missing both legs ---- and arms.
Most of the young men once belonged to the highly decorated 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, which is bearing the brunt of the vicious fighting.
Now they're assigned to another unit: the Wounded Warrior Battalion, created for troops whose injuries require months of care.
For West, and many other injured Marines, life changed with a footstep.
'I looked down and it was gone'
On Oct. 15 of last year, West was leading his Camp Pendleton platoon on a hunt for Taliban insurgents.
The platoon was returning to its outpost in the Helmand province's deadly Sangin District when it was ordered to check a compound where suspected Taliban fighters were congregating.
"We made contact with about 10 villagers and had questioned them," the Georgia native recalled. "We also had radios that scanned for Taliban conversation. Our interpreter said there was traffic about an ambush."
West led the platoon away from the suspected ambush site, crossing an irrigation canal adjacent to a cornfield. It was about 10 a.m. on a Friday.
"I was bent down on my right knee, telling the squad leaders we needed to cut into the cornfield to use it as cover, as a safe haven," West said.
That's when his radio operator, Lance Cpl. James Boelk, 24, of Oceanside, stepped on a pressure plate buried just beneath the surface.
The step triggered a massive explosion that threw Boelk into the canal and tore off his legs.
He was declared dead within minutes.
"Nobody knew what happened at first," West said. "It was a big-ass explosion. When all the dust and smoke cleared, some guys were just standing there, some guys had taken cover."
The blast lifted the 230-pound West and tossed him several feet.
The explosion also took his right leg.
"I looked down and it was gone," West said. "The foot was right next to me, hanging from my pants leg or something. I guess it wasn't ready to leave me quite yet."
It took a couple of minutes for his men to reach him. West had landed on a belt that appeared to contain more explosives.
"They were worried about coming to get me because they didn't want to set off another (improvised explosive device)," he said
His leg wasn't the only thing missing.
"It also took off the pinkie and my trigger finger," West said, gazing at his right hand while sitting in a lounge chair at his family's Oceanside home, just minutes from Camp Pendleton.
"A lot of guys get their trigger finger blown off because they have their finger in the trigger well when the bombs go off," he said.
For the now 175-pound West, the battleground has shifted ---- from the dusty plains and fertile valleys of Afghanistan to the treatment rooms of a San Diego military hospital.
Battalion ravaged
A purple scar snakes its way up West's remaining leg from ankle to thigh.
Another lines his right arm, stretching from his mangled hand to his shoulder.
He has a bald spot and raw-looking wound on the back of his head where a piece of shrapnel penetrated his skull.
The vision he lost in his right eye has a good chance of being recovered, doctors have told him.
His right leg is now a temporary metal prosthetic, one that allowed him to get out of the wheelchair he'd been using for the last three months.
Several other Marines were wounded in the explosion, including the platoon corpsman whose injuries left him unable to treat West.
The blast that ripped apart his platoon is all too familiar for the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, tasked with taming the agricultural region that was a center of drug trafficking and roadside bomb manufacturing.
West is among the more than 150 troops from the nearly 1,000-troop battalion who have been wounded since they arrived in Afghanistan in late September.
In addition to Boelk, 24 other troops have been killed, including one of West's best friends, Lt. Robert Kelly, the son of Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John Kelly.
The battalion, officials say, has seen more casualties in the 10-year-old Afghan war than any other similar-size unit.
"It's tough to think about what a life is worth or what 25 lives are worth," West said. "But I know 3/5 is succeeding in helping free Afghanistan, and I'm pretty sure the 25 dead guys would say it's worth it and not in vain."
The losses are so severe that for the first time the Marine Corps is ordering mental health specialists to "embed" with the troops when they come home in mid-April.
The Marines and their Navy medical corpsmen also will undergo extensive mental health evaluations, and specialists will work with their children, spouses and parents.
"These guys have seen and been through things that most of us can never imagine," said Rear Adm. C. Forrest Faison III, who heads Naval Medical Center San Diego and designed the outreach program in concert with Camp Pendleton commanders. "We want to make sure we take care of them and their families."
'Gnarly infections'
West was on a medical evacuation helicopter less than a half-hour after being wounded. He remembers nothing of his 7,000-mile trip from the cornfield in Afghanistan to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where he arrived on Oct. 20.
"After being put on the helicopter and being shot up with knockout juice, I don't remember anything until they woke me up after a couple of days at Bethesda," he said.
Within a week, West, a 2007 social science graduate of North Georgia College and State University, was out of the intensive care unit, but still at Bethesda for treatment of wounds, such as the one on his left leg large enough to hold two golf balls.
"Everyone getting blown up over there gets these gnarly-ass infections," said the dark-haired, blue-eyed West, who grew up wanting to follow the path of his Korean War veteran grandfather and join the Marines.
After a couple of weeks at Bethesda, he was transferred to the San Diego Naval Medical Center's Comprehensive Combat and Complex Casualty Care unit , where he spent a few days before being released to begin a daily regimen of rehabilitation and medical visits.
There, he is rebuilding his body ---- and his life.
'Blown up already?'
West lives at his family's Oceanside home, where his father, Artis, coordinates the appointment schedule and serves as his driver.
"I'm lucky to have him," he said of his dad.
Father and son make four or five round trips a week to the Naval Medical Center near Balboa Park. The trips start about 8:30 a.m. and the two usually get home by 1 or 2 in the afternoon.
The center is filled with troops whose bodies have been mutilated by roadside bombs.
"The real gut-wrenching thing is watching him and those guys at Balboa that are double or triple amputees," said his dad, who wears T-shirts emblazoned with logos from his son's battalion. "It makes you proud of them, but it also just tears you up."
The elder West recently lost his job and was home when he got the call informing him his son was hurt.
"It's a parent's worst nightmare," he said. "It just floored me. The main thing I kept asking was, 'Is he alive?'"
Cameron West recalls hearing what his mother, a nurse, said when she got the word: "What, he got blown up already?"
The Marine Corps flew his parents to Washington, D.C., where Artis West stayed in the bed next to his son throughout the stay at Bethesda.
Artis West said that except for a couple of down days early on, his son has remained upbeat.
"But it's not as easy as you might think," he said.
Inside his room at home, his son has a picture of his platoon in full gear before they left for Afghanistan.
An observer looking at the picture sees West standing at the far right, nearly a head taller than the others.
He and his platoon spent nearly a year preparing for the deployment, during which his fellow lieutenants tagged him "Big Country" because of his Southern upbringing and love of the outdoors.
Next to that shot are pictures of military officials and celebrities who came to see him in Bethesda.
"It was nonstop," his dad said. "Besides the doctors and nurses, there were people streaming in constantly, including a lot of just regular Marines who just came by on their own time to cheer him up."
Those pictures remind West that he is not alone.
Fellow troops
A couple of weeks ago, West was at the San Diego medical center for therapy on his mangled hand and to reclaim his prosthetic leg, which had gone back to the manufacturer for fine-tuning.
It's there that West sees others from the battalion who were severely wounded, including Stephen Librando, his platoon corpsman injured in the same blast.
"It was a relief when I woke up in ICU at Bethesda and he was there next to me," said Librando, who's being treated for arm, hand, leg, eye and facial injuries.
Librando, a Guam native, also was on his first deployment.
"It sucked because I wasn't able to take care of him or the rest of my guys," he said after hugging West. "But it was good to know (West) made it back."
West, he said, was a good leader.
"He was chill," Librando said. "He did what we needed him to do, and he passed down to us the things we needed to know."
Seeing Librando is therapeutic for West, too.
"He got hit with me, and it's good to be able to see how he and all the rest are doing," West said.
Another member of the platoon, Lance Cpl. Brandon Weese, 19, of Kansas, said West continued to issue orders after he was wounded.
"He was directing the patrol even though he had his leg blown off," Weese said.
First week is the toughest
West's first appointment during a recent visit was with Adrianna Gaeta, who is helping him regain the use of his right hand.
The 30-minute treatment started with a heat pack to work on the scar tissue and coax out dozens of small pieces of shrapnel that remain in his arm.
A short time later, West was being refitted with an interim prosthetic, a column of metal with a mechanical joint for a knee that he wore for about a week before it needed readjustment.
The head prostheticist, Peter Harsch, helped him attach it and coached him through walking exercises.
"Make sure you stride completely," Harsch said as West took a few tentative steps. "The sooner you get rid of the wheelchair, the better."
The clinic visit also was a chance for West to chat with a battalion lance corporal, Justin McLoud, 23, of St. Louis, who lost both legs and his left arm to a roadside bomb a short time after West was injured.
"It's good to see people that you know," said the soft-spoken McLoud, who arrived at Balboa earlier this month.
With him were his wife, Amber, and their 5-month-old son, Desmond.
Amber McLoud said she's amazed at the spirit and courage of the men she sees at the clinic, especially her husband.
"He's made it so easy on me," she said. "He's always in a good mood, and he's accepted what happened to him. For us, there's no sense in dwelling on it and getting pissed off. We just have to deal with it and move on."
West is often one of the first visitors when the severely injured arrive at the Combat Care Unit .
"I just want to let them know that I was in the same situation they're in when I first got here," he said. "The first few weeks are the toughest."
A linebacker for his high school football team, West has a passion for the outdoors and is an avid fisherman and hiker. Thoughts of those pursuits were on his mind when psychologists first asked him how was doing.
"I saw one guy at Bethesda," he said. "He was kind of a joke. I remember he asked me how I was doing. 'Great, I'm doing great. I just got my leg blown off two weeks ago,'" West recalled telling him.
He said his recovery isn't just physical.
"I've got survivor's guilt ---- it's always there, especially because James (Boelk) didn't make it, and I'm pretty pissed about that," he said.
To help his spirit, he and several other injured battalion Marines get together every couple of weeks.
"We talk, and it's good because we can let go of some of the feelings we have," he said. "Guys need some closure, and if not now, maybe six months or a year from now."
'Just bad luck'
He's assigned to a Wounded Warrior Battalion and figures he has about a year's worth of therapy and prosthetic work and repair on his eye.
By that time, West said, he should be eligible for promotion to captain and on track to become an infantry instructor.
A few years ago, the Marine Corps adopted a policy allowing troops injured in combat to stay in the service if the right job was available.
Within a few weeks, he hopes to have the gas and brake pedals on his 1993 Chevrolet pickup with 185,000 miles refitted so he can drive again.
"I just want to get better and get back in the fight, whatever that may be for me," he said. "Injuries are often something that's just bad luck.
"That day, I had the bad luck."
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Professor Joan M. Naake has been appointed the Interim Vice President and Provost of the Rockville Campus of Montgomery College. She is the chief academic officer for a campus of approximately 16,000 students. At the Rockville campus she provides vision and leadership to promote student success.
Provost Naake has collegewide oversight for the following academic areas and related programs:
Having served as the interim dean of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education (HSSE) from 2011 to 2013 and as chair of the Germantown English Department for three years, Professor Naake has earned and long held the respect of her colleagues at the College. In addition, she was the director of the Renaissance Scholars Honors Program for over seven years, as well as director of the Frank Islam Athenaeum Symposia Humanities Speakers Series for the last five years. Prior to joining Montgomery College, Naake also served as the interim dean of Humanities/Social Sciences in California at Cosumnes River College.
As interim dean of HSSE, Naake's support for the arts included facilitating initiatives to display the art work of students and visiting artists, sponsoring musical performances, funding the Germantown Campus Student Purchase Awards, and sustaining the integrative Aesthetics of Math project. She supported innovative initiatives in Education and World Languages that directly impacted student learning. Under Naake's direction, the Athenaeum Symposia have inspired students, faculty, staff, and the greater community by bringing over 50 renowned experts and talented performers to the Campus.
She was awarded the Maryland Professor of the Year Award by the Carnegie Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and has been awarded the Montgomery College Faculty Outstanding Service Award in both 2005 and 2015. During her 23 years at Montgomery College, Professor Naake has taught, both online and face-to-face, the entire range of English courses.
Recognizing the significance of integrative learning, Professor Naake has sustained the interdisciplinary nature of the team-taught dyads in the Renaissance Scholars Honors Program. And dedicated to the importance of providing students with a global perspective, Professor Naake applied for and received a Global Humanities Fellowship from the MC Global Humanities Institute (GHI). She was awarded the Global Humanities Leadership Award in spring 2015.
Professor Naake was the recipient of the Women's and Gender Studies' "On Her Shoulders We Stand Award" in 2013, the National Institute of Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) Excellence Award twice, was granted a sabbatical to enrich her understanding of global literature, was recipient of a CIEE International Faculty Development Fellowship to study higher education in Cuba, and was awarded an MC Smithsonian Faculty Fellowship in 2009.
While in California, Professor Naake authored and co-directed three California Community College grants—Critical Thinking, Writing Across the Curriculum, and Classroom Assessment. These grants totaled $169,000. She is a member of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the Community College Humanities Association, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and the League for Innovation.
Professor Naake has an MA in English Literature from Boston College, a BA in English from Emmanuel College, and has done graduate work at Oxford University, England; University of California, Davis; American University; The George Washington University; and the University of Maryland.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to telemetric systems communicating data through noisy transmission channels. The present invention particularly relates to telemetric systems in formation evaluation or borehole telemetry. More specifically it relates to the identification and suppression of noise in such channels.
2. Description of the Related Art
In the development, completion, and operation of natural hydrocarbon reservoirs, various telemetric systems and techniques are known and employed to achieve what is known in the art as measurement while drilling (MWD).
For the purpose of this application, MWD includes any type of data transmission from sensor units in the drill bit, bottom hole assembly, or any other part of the sub-surface drill string. Another acronym often encountered in the art besides MWD is LWD (Logging While Drilling). MWD includes in particular low data bit rate transmission systems, as operating below 10 kHz, preferably below 1 kHz, such as acoustic telemetry through the drill string itself, or mud pulse telemetry.
In the latter, currently prevailing technique data are transmitted by means of a mud pressure pulse generator located inside the drill string. The system generates pressure pulses in the drilling fluid or mud, typically by way of a valve or siren type of device. The pulses are detected at the surface by suitable means, e.g., pressure sensors, strain gages, accelerometers, and the like, which means are in general directly attached to the drill string.
Borehole or wellbore telemetry is a well established technology. Improvements to this technology as have been made over the past decades are published for example in a large number of patents, including U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,790,930; 3,820,063; 4,739,325; and 4,932,005.
Of particular interest for the scope of the present invention are the numerous attempts being made to improve the data detection of the transmitted data at the surface. It should be noted that the drilling process presents an exceedingly noisy environment for telemetry owing to the mechanical generation of broadband noise and to the drilling fluid circulation system.
To improve the signal-to-noise ratio, the data as gathered by the sensor units can be encoded such that the distortion by noise has less impact on the data recovery. Usually employed encoding schemes include Frequency Shift Keying (FSK), Phase Shift Keying (PSK) or m-ary pulse coding. Alternatively a binary non return to zero coding may be used. Different encoding methods are described for example in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,789,355 or 4,562,559.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,381,092 the signals from those sensors which evaluate the earth formation are subdivided prior to transmission into a plurality of groups, each group represented by one value.
In U.S. Pat. 5,055,837 an attempt is described to improve the quality of the transmission by determining a transfer function which characterizes the transmission properties of the drilling fluid column in the drill pipe.
In an acoustic telemetry system, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,128,901, the data signals are (pre-)conditioned to counteract distortions caused by the drill string.
A filtering technique to cancel or minimize noise in the transmitted data signals is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,878,206. This known approach uses independent measurements of the vibrations of the drill string at the surface to remove pressure disturbance caused by these vibrations and affecting the mud column pressure. A similar technique is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,289,354.
Probably the closest prior art is an undocumented, "manual" approach to noise filtering, wherein an experienced operator searches the frequency spectrum of the transmitted signal for obvious peaks, marks those frequencies at which the peaks occurs and selects appropriate filters to remove them from the signal. This procedure depends on the quality of the operator. It can not be used to provide a deterministic, reliable, and real-time operation service.
A straightforward automation of the above process faces difficulties arising from the nature of wellbore telemetry signals. Those signals are characterized by a low S/N ratio, large fluctuations in the absolute value of the signal and drifts or baseline shifts.
In view of the above cited prior art it is an object of the invention to provide an automated telemetry system with improved noise reduction and cancellation. The system should be compatible with or independent from the various transmission media and encoding methods. It is a particular object of the invention to provide such a system for downhole telemetry in the low frequency domain, in particular for mud pulse telemetry.
The above-mentioned objects of the invention are achieved by apparatus and methods as set forth in the appended claims.
It is seen as a first important feature of the invention that noise frequencies are identified from a dimensionless spectrum, which is in a preferred embodiment of the invention generated by dividing the signal spectrum and another spectrum representing an approximation of the noise-free signal.
The spectrum of the gathered telemetry signal and an approximation of a noise-free spectrum of the gathered signal is generated, preferably using a Fourier-type transformation. The approximated spectrum is preferably generated by averaging or integrating the signal spectrum. This process is based on the observation that noise in downhole telemetry often has a narrow bandwidth.
Dimensionless is defined for the scope of the present invention as having the nature of a pure number, with a value independent from the choice of units. The property of being dimensionless should not be confused with the numbers having arbitrary units such as often encountered in cases where the absolute value in SI or other internationally standardized units is of no importance for the result displayed.
From the dimensionless peak spectrum noise frequencies can be determined by, for example, setting a threshold above which every part of the peak spectrum is regarded as noise. In this process, it is an important advantage for borehole telemetry to be independent of absolute values, as the telemetry signals in this technical field are prone to various drifts and sudden changes caused by external sources.
To facilitate computation, the signal is prior processing subdivided into adjoining time intervals.
Obviously the invention is not restricted to the transmission of signals to the surface, but could also be employed in downhole receivers which are responsive to control commands sent from the surface.
These and other features of the invention, preferred embodiments and variants thereof, and advantages will become appreciated and understood be those skilled in the art from the detailed description and drawings following hereinbelow.
FIG. 1 shows a schematic view of a mud pressure pulse generator and drill string as providing the background for an example of the present invention;
FIG. 2 shows a flow diagram illustrating major functions of a noise identification and removing system in accordance with an example of the present invention;
FIG. 3 shows a flow diagram illustrating major functions of a noise identification step within the system of FIG. 2;
FIGS. 4A-4C show spectra illustrating major aspects of an example in accordance with the invention.
Referring now to the drawings, there is shown in FIG. 1 a tubular MWD tool 10 connected in a tubular drill string 11 having a rotary drill bit 12 coupled to the end thereof and arranged for drilling a borehole 13 through earth formations 14.
As the drill string 11 is rotated by the drilling rig, substantial volumes of drilling fluid ("drilling mud") are continuously pumped by mud pumps 15 down through the drill string 11 and discharged from the bit 14 to cool and lubricate the bit and carry away cuttings removed by the bit. The mud is returned to the surface along the annular space 16 existing between the walls of the borehole 13 and the exterior of the drill string 11. This circulating stream of mud can be used for the transmission of pressure pulse signal from the MWD tool 10 to the surface.
The MWD tool 10 of this example is an integral part of the drill-string bottom hole assembly. It comprises measuring devices 101 for environmental and drilling parameters and appropriate encoders 102 to reduce and refine electrical signals representative of the measured parameters for transmission via mud pulse telemetry signals to the surface. In this example the WD tool measures direction and inclination of the hole, gamma radiation, temperature, and weight and torque on bit. Sensors and tools for other parameters such as downhole pressure, downhole resistivity or conductivity of the drilling mud or formation, neutron spectroscopy etc. might be added. It should however be radiation, temperature, and weight and torque on bit. Sensors and tools for other parameters such as downhole pressure, downhole resistivity or conductivity of the drilling mud or formation, neutron spectroscopy etc. might be added. It should however be obvious that the present invention is not concerned with any specific kind of parameter or measuring device as used in the wellbore.
Electrical power for the operation of the tool is provided by battery producing electrical energy. The tool 10 also includes a modulator, or mud siren, 103 which selectively interrupts or obstructs the flow of the drilling mud through the drill string in order to produce pressure pulses in the mud. Suitable generators are for example described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,785,300; 4,847,815; 4,825,421; 4,839,870 and 5,073,877.
The modulator 103 is controlled such that the pressure pulses are produced in the form of encoded acoustic data signals which correspond to the encoded signals from the measuring devices 101. These signals, typically in the form of binary coded sequences, are transmitted to the surface by way of the mud flowing in the drill string.
In the present example NRZ (Non-Return-to-Zero) telemetry is used to communicate information to the surface. In NRZ modulation the symbols are binary ones and zeros. The system states are the modulator closed (corresponding to a one) and the modulator open (corresponding to a zero). Thus, if two succeeding bits are the same the modulator does not move. If a one follows a zero the modulator closes, if a zero follows a one the modulator opens.
Other signal modulation techniques are usable, and selection of the specific encoding and modulation schemes to be employed in connection with the operation of the modulator are matters of choice. A number of possible modulation schemes for acoustic borehole telemetry are described by S. P. Monroe, "Applying digital data-encoding techniques to mud pulse telemetry", Proceedings of the 5th SPE Petroleum Computer Conference, Denver, Jun. 25-28, 1990, SPE 20236, pp. 7-16.
When these signals reach the surface, they are detected, decoded and converted into meaningful data by a suitable signal detector 36, which in the present example includes a electro-mechanical transducer which is generally known in the art as SPT (Stand-pipe Pressure transducer) 17. Transducers suitable for a acoustic signal/pressure conversion into electrical signals are also found in the published UK Patent GE-A-2 140 599, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,222,049, and in the published International Patent Application WO-A-95/14 845.
The analog signal of the SPT is sampled at an appropriate frequency to derive a digitally coded representation of the analog signal, which then can be further processed as described in the following.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the major steps for removing the noise from transmitted and received signals are described.
The first step 21 comprises the identification of noise by determining its frequency spectrum or at least its major frequency component or components in a time interval, hereinafter also referred to as the data vector, which taken from the received signal.
In a second 22 and third step 23 noise frequencies are selected and removed from the signal.
After noise removal, an adjacent time interval, i.e., the subsequent data vector of the received signal is selected (step 24). And the procedure is reiterated until the complete signal is processed.
It should be noted that the above-described sequence of steps not necessarily reflects a fixed temporal order. It is for example feasible to process several intervals of the signals in parallel and thus accelerating the noise identification.
The noise identification is regarded as one of the key steps of the present invention; it is described in greater detail making reference to FIG. 3.
The noise identification includes the step 31 of selecting a data vector. In the current example the data vector spread over or drifts, methods and means for removing these trends are employed. Preferable this step is performed before any transformation into the frequency domain. Normally the best-fit line using least-square based is sufficient to remove a trend from the data. Other means and methods are readily available to a person skilled in the art. The parameters for the line fit are retained for a reconstruction of the data after the noise removal.
The data vector is then transformed by a Fourier transformation into the frequency domain. In a particularly preferred variant of the present example the chosen data vector is multiplied by a suitable windowing function (such as a flat window with cosine end-tapers), and padded with zeros--lengthening the data four or eight fold, thereby enhancing the resolution of the spectrum.
Zero padding introduces side-bands next to the noise peaks, but these are removed in later step 36 as is described below. The Fourier transform itself can be performed for example by a accordingly programmed multi-purpose microprocessor, a digital signal processor (DSP), or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).
After the spectrum of the data vector is determined in absolute values, in one variant of the invention, the spectrum is scaled such that if only signal were present the spectrum would be approximately flat. For the NRZ telemetry of this example the spectrum is roughly proportional to the inverse of the frequency, so the spectrum is multiplied by the frequency to flatten it. This step 33 is not essential, but can improve results.
In a further step 34, a running median filtering process is applied to the spectrum. The filter has a window length of 0.2 Hz. Essentially this step results in a smoothened version of the original spectrum, in which all peaks are largely reduced in height. Though this method generally gives the best results, other methods, which can be summarized as a weighted median or mean value based, could be applied to generates a smoothened version of the spectrum of the signal. Other integrating methods are feasible.
In another example the (non-windowed) median of the complete spectrum is used as an approximation of the noise-free spectrum.
In yet a further example, a windowed or shifting mean of the spectrum is used as an approximation of the noise-free spectrum.
From these different variants, the windowed median filtered spectrum provides the best results under usual circumstances.
Returning now to FIG. 3, in the next steps 35 and 36 the smoothened spectrum is used to identify the peaks in the original spectrum. This is done by dividing both spectrums and using a threshold to suppress all amplitude below a threshold, which is 5 in the present example. The advantage of using a division rather than the difference spectrum lies in that the resulting spectrum is independent from absolute values or units.
To eliminate those side bands which are introduced by the zero-padding in step 32, from the resulting peak spectrum, any non-zero intervals in the peak spectrum that are close to, but have a maximum value smaller than, another non-zero interval are discarded in step 37. Now the frequencies within each interval at which the peak spectrum attains a maximum are found. If the maximum is above a second threshold value (usually chosen to be greater than 6), then this frequency is identified as being narrow-band noise frequency. If the maximum is between the two thresholds then the frequency is only identified as a noise frequency if it is the same as or very close to a frequency that has previously been identified as a noise frequency. This is to allow for frequency drift, and for noise sources whose amplitude goes up and down.
The results of the above described operations are displayed in FIG. 4. The frequency scaled spectrum with the prominent noise frequencies (a,b) is shown in FIG. 4A. A smoothened version of this spectrum is produced by windowed median filtering (FIG. 4B).
In FIG. 4C the result of a division of the original spectrum (FIG. 4A) and its median filtered version (FIG. 4B) is shown. The resulting "peak spectrum" is dimensionless. The threshold separates the (assumed) noise (a,b) from the signal.
The result of the process is a (possibly empty) list of frequencies at which there is narrow-band noise.
The noise removal process make use of the frequency identified through the previous steps as contaminated with noise. With these information a variety of different filtering techniques can be applied to the original data to reduce or cancel the noise in the signal.
One possibility is to employ notch filters with notches at the noise frequencies, or adaptive Least-Mean-Square (LMS) methods described as such by B. Widrow and S. D. Stearns in: "Adaptive Signal Processing", Prentice Hall, 1985, on pp. 212-224 and pp. 99-116, respectively.
The method used for removing the noise frequencies from the telemetry signal in the present example includes the step of generating, for each of the identified noise frequencies, two noise vectors of mono-chromatic noise at that frequency with a 90 degree phase difference between them, e.g., if the noise frequency is F then the two noise vectors could be
N1 =sin(2πFt) N2 =cos(2πFt), (1)
with t from a time interval which is much shorter than the original interval, in this example 12 seconds as compared to the 60 to 120 seconds length of the noise identification vector.
Synthesizing noise for all the noise frequencies produces a noise matrix N. Assuming that the data D is corrupted by an additive noise component according to
where D is the vector of data, S is the underlying signal, N is the matrix of noise synthesized at the narrow-band noise frequencies, and A is the vector of (unknown) noise amplitudes.
The vector A is found by minimized the residual E, given by
The solution to eq. [3] is given by
where T denotes the transposed matrix, and the signal is given by reordering equation [2]:
This process may also be carried out over a slightly longer noise removal vector, multiplied by a windowing function that is one over the original range of the removal vector, as defined above, and beyond goes smoothly to zero, in which case the noise vectors are multiplied by the same windowing function.
The signal has its trend reinstated, adding back the linear function removed during noise identification, and a data jump is avoided by adding a constant to the data such that the last point of the previously-processed data and the first point of the current data are the same.
The reference time is then moved forward by the length of the noise-removal vector, and the process is repeated.
An improvement can be made to the method described above when the signal is also subject to time-domain spike noise, and the data has a wider bandwidth than the signal alone. Spike noise causes problems with Fourier techniques, since when a large spike is within the noise-identification vector, the frequency transform is dominated by the spike. Spike removal may be achieved by using a running-median filter on the data, and comparing the original data with the median filtered version. An example of this method is described as such in "Running median filters and a general despikker", in: Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 72 (1982), pp. 331-338, by J. R. Evans. If the difference is greater than a threshold, the original data is replaced by the median filtered version--if not then it is unaltered. To this end, the data is low-pass filtered with a bandwidth that exceeds the signal bandwidth, preferably by a factor of two. The median filter length is then chosen so that the spikes, after low-pass filtering will be contained within the filter length. A suitable length L is given by ##EQU1## where FN is the Nyquist frequency and FL is the frequency at which the data has been low-pass filtered.
The process is performed on a general purpose computing machine which receives the signal from the SPT and on which a suitable program, e.g. "MATLAB" is installed. Other possibilities for implementing the method include the use of a dedicated microprocessor, known as such as DSPs or ASICs.
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Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Volume 24, Issue 11, pages 2049–2052, November 2012
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How to Cite
Wasalathanthri, D. P., Malla, S., Faria, R. C. and Rusling, J. F. (2012), Electrochemical Activation of the Natural Catalytic Cycle of Cytochrome P450s in Human Liver Microsomes. Electroanalysis, 24: 2049–2052. doi: 10.1002/elan.201200373
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Luo, C., Zuo, F., Ding, X., Zheng, Z., Cheng, X. and Peng, Y. (2008), Light-triggered reversible solubility of α-cyclodextrin and azobenzene moiety complexes in PDMAA-co-PAPA via molecular recognition. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 107: 2118–2125. doi: 10.1002/app.27364
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It was so bad they canceled it after four episodes. It was so bad that they canceled a cartoon in 1989 that had a toyline... thats epic bad right there.
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I miss being a kid, using the BBQ Bomber with my Godzilla and Transformers figures, and not even caring that is was so out of place.
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it ended in a peace accord.
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Yes I realize I have no smile in that pic.
So how bad was this cartoon? This one episode revolved around them fighting for the last apple on an apple tree. They find some message from I guess ancestor's or something. Just some really old civilization that both the pigs and the sheep believe to have had an ultamate weapon in which they search for.
During this they try to come up with a 'code language' so they can talk to each other without letting the other faction know what they are talking about.
'Pig-Latin' for the Pigs. 'Baa-code' for the Sheep. >_<
All I remember is they end up in a cave temple thing built by the acient civilization. Where each faction uses their 'Code language' to talk to each other. Which DOESN'T WORK because as SOON as they say something in the code. They then repeat it in NORMAL ENGLISH. I'm sure this is so the kids at home can follow what they mean, but even so it just looks silly to say something in Pig-Latin, only to turn around one second afterward and say "You know the staircase" Yeah, real great job in keeping your conversation secret and in code. I'm sure NO ONE would ever guess at what you were talking about.
(Also, I forget how Baa-Code worked, and don't really feel like sticking the VHS in. Espcally since I'd have to re-hook up the VCR, to remind myself)
The episode ends with them pulling out their vehicles and fighting it out till the last apple falls off the tree, and gets eaten by a cow if I'm not mistaken. Which oddly enough is just a cow, and not animorphic.
The animation is good enough, but yeah, it's pretty much your adverage 80's cartoon stuff.
For those wondering, I didn't hate it, but I can see why it didn't last.
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|Additional Art
|and Kris Peterson
|and Stu Wiegert
|Level Designers
|Pete Hushvahtov
|Additional Level Design
|and Dan Vondrak
|Game Programming
|Allison McCarthy
|Technology Programming
|Chris Reed
|Technology Programming
|and Marcus Whitlock
|Technology Programming
|Jim O' Keane
|Additional Programming
|and Rich Whitehouse
|Additional Programming
|Mike Crowns
|Director Of Product Development
|Raven Software
|Plot And Story
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Awards & Rankings
#23 Most Discussed GameCube Game of 2004
#11 Most Shared GameCube Game of 2004
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Der Biergarten and the German Chamber of Commerce are encouraging everyone to don their best dirndl and lederhosen and join them for Atlanta's Fifth Schlagerparty. For those who may not be familiar with German Schlager, it's a type of pop music with a catchy melody and simple lyrics that was especially popular in the 70s. The term "Schlager" can also refer to a hit song. From 7 p.m. to midnight, guests can enjoy beer specials such as $9 liters of Krombacher Pilsner and Weihenstephan Hefe and a DJ playing all the best Schlager songs.


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